GAMEDAY RECAP
Dolphins Untrack Uni-bikers
Dolphins 16, Uni-bikers 1
MANILA - The marquee pitching match-up of Series 2 Opening Day featured a pair of former collegiate rival left-handers. The Cebu Dolphins' Joseph Orillana and the Dumaguete Uni-bikers' Darwin Dela Calzada rekindled their healthy collegiate rivalry from their University Athletics Association of the Philippines days a few years back.
Unfortunately mother nature intervened in the middle innings when sporadic but steady rain littered the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium on a breezy afternoon. The anticipated pitchers' duel did not last beyond the fourth inning.
Jon DeUbago's two-run double broke a 1-1 fourth-inning tie and the Dolphins added two more runs in the fifth before blowing away Dela Calzada and the Uni-bikers with an eleven-run outburst in the seventh inning for a 16-1 rout.
The winning margin ranks among the most lopsided losses in Philippine baseball history this century.
Miggy 'Big Daddy' Corcuera and Fulgencio Rances paced the Dolphins onslaught with three hits apiece while Dumaguete fielders committed an Opening Day-high seven errors (including four in the disastrous seventh) to aid in the rout.
"My arm felt good. It was just that I had difficulty gripping the baseball," said DelaCalzada in Filipino tagalog. "Whether the results would have been different, I guess we'll never know."
Dolphins owner Jose Cabarrus was savoring his team's moment and credited the Dolphins' balanced attack.
"We have good runners, a hustler who leads by example, and excellent hitters," said Cabarrus, who later acknowledged his team's lack of pitching depth after Orillana.
GAMEDAY
| Sun, Oct 7, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Cebu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | x | x | 16 | 13 | 2 |
| Dumaguete | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | x | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| WP: Orillana (1-0) LP: DelaCalzada(0-1) | ||||||||||||